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Q8: What are some additional useful to know baseball card collecting terms ?

(part 4)Team Set - a group of cards featuring all the issues of the players of a
particular team from the same release.

Test Issue - a preliminary offering issued as a test to see if a product
would be accepted by collectors.

Tobacco Card - typically from the early 1900s, these were cards issued with
tobacco products. The most famous of which is the "T-206" Honus Wagner card.

Traded/Update Set - a set issued after the original issue primarily featuring rookies
or players who were traded since the original issue came out.

Trimmed Card - a card reduced in size from when it was issued, usually to hide
an imperfection such as damaged edges or corners. Trimmed cards usually have very
little value but in some cases such as the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle, even trimmed
cards can go for thousands of dollars. The most famous 'trimmed' card to date is the
T206 Honus Wagner purchased by Wayne Gretzky. The card was actually too large and
was trimmed down to it's proper size.

Unauthorized Issue - a card release which is not licensed by a league, a playerís
association, or by a player.

Variation - a card that was printed by the manufacturer in two or more different
ways.

Wax - a universal collecting term for factory-sealed packs or boxes. The term "wax"
most often refers to sealed material that was originally released in the
early 1990ís or back -- a time when packs were wrapped and sealed in wax
paper wrappers. It can casually reference modern era packs or boxes that no longer use actual wax paper.

The issue below is featured elsewhere on this website:

1959 Fleer Ted Williams

Ted Williams was one of the greatest hitters ever to play the game !
The 'Splendid Splinter' played from 1939-1942 and 1946-1960 all with
the Boston Red Sox. He missed 1943 thru 1945 due to military duty when he
was a pilot during the wars. For his career he hit .344 with 521 home runs.
Ted Williams was one of the biggest stars baseball has ever seen,
and his baseball cards remain very popular and valuable.

Ted's rookie card was in 1950 Bowman and he was exclusive with Bowman from
1950 thru 1954. In 1954 he also allowed Topps to make his cards which
they did from 1954 thru 1958.

In 1959 Fleer signed Ted Williams away from Topps and assumed the star
Ted Williams would be retiring, put out an entire 80-card set of cards
highlighting Ted Williams and illustrating his life both in and out of baseball.
Williams decided late in the fall to resign for another year perhaps
damaging the sets impact. Today these cards remain extremely popular
with most of the cards in teh set still quite affordable.

There is one very rare card in this set, #68 picturing Ted with Bucky Harris.
UNFORTUNATELY Topps had Bucky Harris under exclusive contract and
Fleer had to quickly halt production of this card making it a significant
SHORT PRINT. Only a few made it out to the public. This card is quite rare,
hardly ever seen and a plain old simple checklist making it the perfect
candidate for counterfeiting.
NOTE: This card has been counterfeited in significant quantities
so you should be very, very careful when looking to acquire this card.

Other interesting cards are those that picture Ted with Babe Ruth,
Jimmie Foxx, Sam Snead and Jim Thorpe. In addition, cards of Ted fishing
or with his airplane are also very popular.

1964 Topps Stand-Ups

Topps most popular 1960's test issue !!!
Blank-backed and unnumbered, these standard size cards were called
"Stand-Ups". "Stand-Ups" refers to a type of card that was die cut around
the player's picture. The background section then could be folded in half, so the card
could stand up by itself while the player's picture stood alone.
Directions for folding are on the background and when folded only the
green background remains.
1934-36 Batter Up and the 1951 Topps All-Star sets are 2 other popular
standup issues.

Thanks to the green and yellow borders and the likelihood that most cards
have been heavily folded, 1964 Stand-Ups are extremely difficult to
obtain in top grades.

The 77 card set features color photographs of the player on
yellow and green backgrounds. 22 of the 77 cards were single printed making
them twice as scarce and much higher in demand.